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May 9, 2008

Real estate, like all businesses, requires lots of expertise

The main lobby area of the Columbia Museum of Art was filled with associates and friends of Columbia- based real estate services from NAI Avant Tuesday, April 15, 2008, from 6 pm- 8 pm. There was no speech and no program, just every opportunity to meet and greet among the invitation- only crowd and the employees and management of NAI Avant. More...

Group performs to support human rights

By Warner M.Montgomery warner@thecolumbiastar.com

The African Awareness Workgroup of Carolina Peace Resource Center recently held a program in support of the people of Guinea who are struggling under a tyrannical dictator, shortages of food, and a deteriorating infrastructure. The featured speaker was Amara Camara, a native of Guinea who is performing in the U.S. and living in Columbia. More...

You are invited to eat sweet potato pie

Photo by Jackie Perrone Mary Kirkland, Marie Adams, and Carrie White, great granddaughters of Samuel and Harriett Barber.The Sweet Potato Festival is sponsored by a group of interested citizens in the Hopkins Park area and supported by the Richland County Recreation Commission. Also, The Lower Richland Corridor will present a Memorial Day/Heritage Day Celebration May 26, 2008, 11 am- 4 pm. Guided tours of the Harriet Barber house will be held from noon- 4 pm. www.harrietbarberhouse More...

Opinion/Crime

•	Thirty-something speaks

Quit multitasking and just swing the bat

I should have known better than to tell my son to do more than one thing at a time. After all, he is genetically bound to struggle with more than one task performed simultaneously. That's because he is a male, and he is my son. I can get a whole list of things accomplished if I do those things one at a time and without interruption, but life doesn't work that way. More...

•	Boy Scout does his duty to help people

•	It's not a criticism, it's an observation.

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News

•	BBQ Joints and the Good Folks Who Own Them

Whether it is drizzled with mustard, smothered in barbecue sauce, or soaked in vinegar, barbecue is a Southern tradition. USC's McKissick Museum will celebrate this culinary favorite with the exhibition, "Barbecue Joints & The Good Folks Who Own Them," May 10 through July 19. More...

•	Historic Columbia Foundation presents 2008 Preservation Awards

•	The Periodic Table has 118 legs

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Government/Neighborhood

•	Richland County Council concerned about State of the County press conference

Roll call Chairman Joe McEachern, Vice Chair Val Hutchinson, Joyce Dickerson, Norman Jackson, Paul Livingston, Bill Malinowski, Greg Pearce, Bernice Scott, and Kit Smith were present. Damon Jeter and Mike Montgomery were absent. More...

•	West Columbia City Council discusses water pressure for five story hotel

•	West Columbia citizens angry over development in Hook Avenue area

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Business

•	And the Silver Crescent goes to...

Manufacturing excellence awards go to some of SC's top manufacturing operations.

The Silver Crescent Foundation and the South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership held their annual luncheon to award the Silver Crescent for Manufacturing Excellence to some of the state's top manufacturing operations. More...

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Briefs

•	John Graves of Eastern States Serum Company

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Education

•	A Barber has taught in Richland County every year for a century

You are invited to eat sweet potato pie (See Events)

The sale of 42 1/2 acres in Lower Richland by the Freedmans' Bureau in 1872 led to a record- setting family tradition that continues today. Sam Barber, a freed slave, well- digger, and preacher from Virginia, made his way to Lower Richland before the Civil War. In Log Town, a suburb of Kingsville (a railroad junction between Ft. More...

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Society

•	Miss Muthig and Mr. Bridges announce engagement

Dr. and Mrs. Michael Muthig announce the engagement of their daughter Erin Jo to Brandon Thomas Bridges, son of Mrs. Wanda Winters and Mr. Gary Bridges. The bride elect is the granddaughter of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Hines Jr. and Mrs. Ann Muthig and the late James Muthig of Leesville, South Carolina. She graduated from A.C. More...

•	Bill Helms

•	Rare Robert Burns's manuscripts added to Roy Collection

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Sports

•	Westmoreland strikes out 16 for B- C

AAA Baseball Playoffs • May 5, 2008

Adam Westmoreland struck out 16 Midland Valley hitters and threw a complete game to lead the Brookland- Cayce Bearcats over Midland Valley 3- 1 in AAA baseball playoff action Monday, May 5. More...

•	Late heroics propel A.C. Flora

•	Bearcats rally over Dreher

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Events

•	You are invited to eat sweet potato pie

Harriet Barber would love for folks in the Midlands to come out to Hopkins Park May 10 and eat some sweet potato pie. Donations will go toward restoring her historically important home off Lower Richland Boulevard. The South Carolina Land Commission was a unique program by a southern state to give freedmen the opportunity to own land. More...

•	It's happening right here in your community

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Travel

•	Pineville, a historic refuge

Part 58: Pineville cemeteries: Marion

Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have. - Benjamin Franklin Cemeteries are records of the past. Gravestones are expressions of love and affection engraved in history. More...

•	Nurse Maude story features Columbian's father

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Public Notices

•	Public Notices

NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED VEHICLES/PUBLIC SALE The following vehicles are subject to towing, repair and/or storage liens; are declared to be abandoned pursuant to Section 56-5-5810, More...

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Beauty in the Backyard

•	The Crinum Connection

Stopping to smell the flowers

Growing up in the company of crinums, horticulturist Jenks Farmer extols the virtues of the robust subtropical bulb. Native to south Africa, crinums made their way to the Caribbean, Central America, and the American south via 18th century trade routes. More...

•	Changing the color of hydrangeas

•	Garden of the week

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